the so-called buffett rule, named offer warren bufferet, the famed investor, saying yin -- anyone who makes a million-dollar income should on principle pay the same rate in taxes as the middle class. he said he should pay as much as his stret -- zrement rollback of course deductions that they have, oil and garks corporate jets, all the things that democrats have been talking about in the past and republicans respond, as john boehner said, it's class warfare. gwen: that's the key. that's all the kings the democrats were talking about in the past and all the things the republicans had said no to. they promised a new focus on the economy, but to what end? >> well, one end is to get the president's approval ratings up, to get him having a greater ability to pressure congress to deliver on his agenda and the second is to win re-election in 2012. the president believes he tried over the summer to negotiate a bipartisan deal that included entitlement cuts, cuts to medicare and social security, and tax increases. john boehner wanted to make that deasm the republican caucus wouldn't let him an